It's starting to look like Obama may have played an active roll in the targeting of Tea Party groups.
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The Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days before offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize tea party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight testimony by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull as one of his supervisors in the improper targeting of conservative groups, met with Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 23, 2012. Wilkinsâ boss, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 24, 2012, according to White House visitor logs.
On April 25, 2012, Wilkinsâ office sent the exempt organizations determinations unit âadditional comments on the draft guidanceâ for approving or denying tea party tax-exempt applications, according to the IRS inspector generalâs report.
Between 2010 and 2012, the IRS sent letters demanding groupsâ training materials, personal information on groupsâ donors and college interns, and even the content of a religious groupâs prayers.
Wilkinsâ meeting with Obama on April 23 was attended by 13 people.
Wilkins, who is one of only two Obama appointees at the IRS, is a former lobbyist with the firm WilmerHale, where he spent his time âcounseling nonprofit organizations, business entities, and investment funds on tax compliance, business transactions, and government investigations.â At the firm, Wilkins defended Rev. Jeremiah Wrightâs Chicago-based United Church of Christ from a 2008 investigation into whether Wright violated his churchâs nonprofit status by speaking in favor of Obama. Wilkins successfully defended Wrightâs church pro bono.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/22/e...2-days-before-writing-new-targeting-criteria/
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The Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days before offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize tea party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight testimony by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull as one of his supervisors in the improper targeting of conservative groups, met with Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 23, 2012. Wilkinsâ boss, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 24, 2012, according to White House visitor logs.
On April 25, 2012, Wilkinsâ office sent the exempt organizations determinations unit âadditional comments on the draft guidanceâ for approving or denying tea party tax-exempt applications, according to the IRS inspector generalâs report.
Between 2010 and 2012, the IRS sent letters demanding groupsâ training materials, personal information on groupsâ donors and college interns, and even the content of a religious groupâs prayers.
Wilkinsâ meeting with Obama on April 23 was attended by 13 people.
Wilkins, who is one of only two Obama appointees at the IRS, is a former lobbyist with the firm WilmerHale, where he spent his time âcounseling nonprofit organizations, business entities, and investment funds on tax compliance, business transactions, and government investigations.â At the firm, Wilkins defended Rev. Jeremiah Wrightâs Chicago-based United Church of Christ from a 2008 investigation into whether Wright violated his churchâs nonprofit status by speaking in favor of Obama. Wilkins successfully defended Wrightâs church pro bono.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/22/e...2-days-before-writing-new-targeting-criteria/
